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Gloria Steinem worked for the CIA and dated Henry Kissinger.
when i talk about White Woman, Capitalist, Imperialist Feminism, am talking about La Steinem.
Steinem succeeded in making #feminism only about #abortion and not about the obvious endgame to smashing #inequality: #socialism.
that’s why Steinem was never the champion of #UBI or #Medicare4All. that’s why she was nowhere defending “welfare queens” from corporatists’ witch hunts.
may she rot in nevermore like Kissinger.
As somebody unfortunately unacquainted with the field, I didn't know that Steinem, and the second wave of feminism in general, were indeed challenged during her lifetime by less conservative feminists - for example, Audre Lorde, Winona LaDuke, to an extent Anna Nieto-Gómez and of course, the biggest one, Kimberlé Crenshaw, who defined the idea of intersectionality partly as a response to what they called "hegemonic feminism", which was perceived to work solely in favor of the majority. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-w…
I won't put her in the same category with the person who got the USA bombing Cambodia out of the blue because he said it'd make us look tough. But yeah I was never impressed with that sort of performative, elitist feminist.
@blogdiva I was waiting for the "other side' of the news today. Always something. 🙄
Same. That's why I'm very hesitant to offer condolences nowadays without a background check. Case in point: a boy age 19 that recently died on a cyclist tour... but nobody seemed to care that he used to run for a team with deep links to the Israeli state. Finlay Tarling, look it up
Another recent one: Dolly Parton used to have events glorifying the Confederate side on her Dollywood amusement park (emphasis on "used to", she eventually dropped them) and she was also criticized for her lukewarm positions in human rights, mostly because she feared it would make half of her fandom lash against her if she was more explicit in her politics.
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